(October 16, 2016 at 12:34 pm)Rhythm Wrote: IDK Kernel, I was raised to put on the hood and string a darky up. Somehow, it's just not who I am, and never has been. Writing it off as "implicit bias" and claiming some sort of naturality to it, is...I think, excusing/obscuring the problem. All this alk of normalcy...that's not a "natural" thing, there's no such thing a naturally normal human being or naturally normal human perception. It gets hammered in. It -get's- criticism, being open to it it doesn't seem to work, unless you imagine that the reason people are, for example, racist, is because there's some insurmountable barrier to criticism in every racist. They've heard the criticism, they don't give a shit.
Thanks for your response, Rhythm. I revised the first sentence of my post to say "plays a part in the problem", rather than a big part in the problem." After re-reading my post, I could see your point very clearly: I was being too general.
I agree with you about normalcy. My point was to say that normalcy is subjective and constructed (or hammered in as you put it) and not natural. Or put another, way, we are the ones who are constructing these biases and sense-making processes.
